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Bain Capital Specialty Finance BCSF

US equityMarket cap rank #3519Asset Management

$10.67 −$0.15 (-1.39%)

Pre-market · Oct 8, 8:20 am ET · After hours $10.67 0.00%

Open$10.75

Prev close$10.82

Day range$10.55 – $10.78

Volume635.9K

Market cap$692.15M

P/E (TTM)10.8

Dividend yield15.75%

Ownership & positioning

Who holds it, who is betting against it, and where the big money is moving

Institutional ownership57.3%-3.87 pts vs. prior quarter

Institutions holding142-2 vs. prior quarter

Insider trades (recent)2 buys / 0 sellsNet buying

Short interest2.54% of floatDays to cover 3.1 · as of 15 Sep 2026

Short-sale volume share24.4%5-day average of daily volume

Short-sale volume as % of daily volume

Large-order net flow, last 20 sessions

Net of large-order buying minus selling, in USD. Over this window: −$1.73M (7 inflow days, 13 outflow days).

Net flow by order size, last 20 sessions

Super/Big orders approximate institutional-size trades; Mid/Small approximate retail-size trades. Net buy minus sell value in each bucket, summed over the window.

The five largest holders on file together own 29.9% of shares outstanding.

Largest holders

Bain Capital Credit, LP18.23%
Cresset Asset Management, LLC3.69%
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated3.60%
UBS Asset Management2.26%
Van Eck Associates Corporation2.12%
Two Sigma Investments, LP2.12%
Morgan Stanley1.93%
Dimension Capital Management LLC1.93%

By investor type

Mutual Fund42.03%
Hedge Fund6.71%
Private Company4.34%
Public Company2.72%
Individual/Insider0.70%
VC/PE Fund0.62%
Family Office/Trust0.52%
REIT0.35%

Reported short interest has risen from 1.95% to 2.54% of float over the last 6 biweekly reports (30 Jun 2026 to 15 Sep 2026).

Recent institutional activity

Holder	Type	Period	Share change	New stake
Ares Management LLC	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+493,817	0.9%
Envestnet Asset Management, Inc.	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+457,491	0.7%
Columbus Macro, LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+451,309	0.7%
Cetera Investment Advisers LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+445,675	0.7%
CAZ Investments L.P.	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+438,201	0.7%
Cresset Asset Management, LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+321,717	3.7%
GCM Grosvenor Inc.	VC/PE Fund	2026/Q3	+315,000	0.5%
Van Eck Associates Corporation	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+253,902	2.1%
Arax Advisory Partners, LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+252,531	0.7%
Russell Investment Management, LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+246,500	1.2%
Morgan Stanley	Public Company	2026/Q3	+108,756	1.9%
Privium Fund Management (UK) Limited	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+95,551	0.1%
Callodine Capital Management, LP	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+92,651	0.3%
Accelerate Financial Technologies Inc.	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+84,017	0.4%
Bank of America Corporation	Public Company	2026/Q3	+82,874	0.3%

Institutional buy/sell activity by reporting period, largest moves first.

Insider transactions

Date	Insider	Title	Transaction	Shares	Price	Held after
2 Mar 2026	Sabrina Rusnak-Carlson	General Counsel	Open Market Acquisition	+2,300	$12.55	9,560
4 Nov 2025	Sabrina Rusnak-Carlson	General Counsel	Initial Statement of Beneficial	+0	–	7,260
16 Mar 2025	Clare Richer	Independent Director	Open Market Acquisition	+1,530	$16.43	20,835

From Form 4/Form 144 filings. Negative share counts are disposals (sales, gifts, or shares withheld for taxes); positive are acquisitions.

Short interest, by report

Report date	Shares short	% of float	Days to cover
15 Sep 2026	1,650,718	2.5%	3.1
31 Aug 2026	1,499,227	2.3%	3.3
14 Aug 2026	1,380,218	2.1%	3.4
31 Jul 2026	1,202,091	1.9%	5.0
15 Jul 2026	1,210,449	1.9%	4.1
30 Jun 2026	1,261,876	1.9%	3.4

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